Welcome to the Wireless Center

The goal of the MIT Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing (Wireless@MIT) is to develop next-generation wireless network technologies and mobile computing systems. The features of the Center are:

1. An interdisciplinary focus that brings together over fifteen MIT professors and their groups, conducting research in networking, communication and information theory, systems, security, hardware, algorithms, and societal applications (transportation, health care, and autonomous systems) .

2. A strong industrial partnership and an emphasis on influencing and impacting standards and products.

3. A neutral ground where companies, academics, and government representatives can discuss the future of the wireless industry.

Dina Katabi has been selected for the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. In announcing this appointment, Department Head Anantha Chandraksan shared the following message with his colleagues in the EECS Department.

Professor Dina Katabi has been named one of the 2013 MacArthur Fellows. Often referred to as “genius grants,” the MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to individuals who have “shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.”

The comic-book hero Superman uses his X-ray vision to spot bad guys lurking behind walls and other objects. Now we could all have X-ray vision, thanks to researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Researchers have long attempted to build a device capable of seeing people through walls. However, previous efforts to develop such a system have involved the use of expensive and bulky radar technology that uses a part of the electromagnetic spectrum only available to the military.

Professor Dina Katabi, co-director of Wireless at MIT, has won the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, which honors the outstanding young computer professionals of the year. Katabi received this award for her seminal contributions to the theory and practice of network congestion control and bandwidth allocation, particularly through her dissertation on the explicit Control Protocol (XCP).

Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan's team, along with Konstantina Stankovic, at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary designed a "super low power" chip that is able to transmit wirelessly by harnessing energy from a mammal's body. In the future, such low power innovation may be used in self-powered medical implants or for medical monitoring.